Its A-level results are in the top ten per cent of comprehensives in the UK, and eighth in Cheshire for the 2018/2019 academic year.

The 1908 Inspector's Report shows a school with 133 pupils, drawn mainly from the Runcorn area, but with several others coming in from Frodsham, Helsby and Ellesmere Port.

They criticised the "foul gases that pass into the woodwork room" when a gas engine was running.

In light of the shortage of building materials the education committee were forced to seal off the girls' school.

In 1953, the Coronation year, the school took part in the Coronation Survey of Education in the Empire, which aimed to show that "although methods of education and ways of life differ, we are united under our Queen in the British Empire and Commonwealth".

In the harsh winter gales of 1966 the girls were sent home from school when strong gusts broke glass panels, rendering the building unsafe.

Other subjects include History, Geography, Business Studies, Systems and Control, Art, Music, Drama, Information and Health and Social Care, Food Technology, Media Studies and Physical Education.

Latin was offered as a subject until 1999 when lack of uptake led to its removal from the GCSE option list.